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  • Passenger road transport
    This SIM updates and replaces SIM 05/2001/16.  It gives background information on the passenger road transport industry, and details the responsibilities of regulatory and other bodies which exert...
  • Load security on curtain sided lorries
    This report seeks to establish good practice for securing loads on curtain sided lorries across various industry sectors and direct the reader to practical, robust guidance on load restraint to...
  • Workplace transport - Personnel
    Focusing on advice for workplace managers who are responsible for; recruiting, training and hiring drivers and operators.  Read the advice for workplace managers
  • Falls from vehicles: Campaign evaluation
    This report outlines the quantitative and qualitative research conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the Health and Safety Executive’s Falls From Vehicles communications campaign that ran in...
  • Council fined after man killed by refuse truck
    HSE is warning the waste industry to ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent injuries caused by reversing waste and recycling collection vehicles. The warning follows HSE’s prosecution...
  • Clocks go back - advice for safe working in winter
    Now that the clocks have gone back, and winter is approaching, HSE is offering some timely guidance to ensure workers remain safe during the colder, darker months ahead. View safe working in winter...
  • RoSPA: Young drivers at work project
    Please help The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) with their research study into the safety issues surrounding young drivers on the road as part of their job. To do this, RoSPA...
  • HSE publishes health and safety statistics for 2007/08
    New statistics published by the HSE today reveal a reduction in the numbers of people killed, injured or made ill by work during 2007/08. View press release regarding health and safety statistics for...
  • Health and safety statistics 2007/8
    Latest release - health and safety statistics 2007/08 presenting the latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great...
  • Risk Assessment in Practice seminar
    Organised as part of the European Week for Health and Safety the seminar will feature local companies sharing their experiences of risk assessment. All Nations Centre, Cardiff: 22 October 2008 –...
  • Warning about falling from vehicles following death of driver
    HSE warns about the dangers of falling from vehicles following the death of a Central Scotland tanker driver who fell three metres from the top of his vehicle because his employer failed to provide a...
  • Recycling firm fined after employee falls
    HSE has warned companies to ensure work at height is carried out safely after a recycling firm was fined when an employee fell from a lorry in Lincoln. View press release
  • DVD: Signposts for health and safety
    Originally broadcast on BBC2 as 10 half-hour programmes - a variety of small businesses show how they have successfully dealt with health and safety at work issues. Visit the Signposts page and view...
  • North Tyneside council prosecuted after refuse truck fatality
    HSE is warning the waste industry to ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent injuries caused by reversing waste and recycling collection vehicles. The warning follows HSE’s prosecution...
  • Public consultations alerts
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